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Master Data Management

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Flexibility to Make Attributes Searchable After Creation in Match360

Currently, in the Match360 data model, an attribute can only be designated as searchable during its initial creation. Once the attribute is created and published, it cannot be altered as a searchable attribute. This lack of flexibility restricts t...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Highlight Same or Different buttons in Inspector do not work.

Over the last 10 years the Inspector Highlight Same and Highlight Different buttons have never worked properly. Highlight Different will highlight fields that are different due to casing or special character differences, but we know that the algor...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Pair Review Generation Performance Improvement

As it stands right now, with over 200M+ records in Match360, it will take north of 14 hours to generate pairs for review (tested on 90M records). There is no opportunity to improve the performance of this pair generation in the current solution. H...
7 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Filter entities in advanced search by record_count

Allows for the ability to filter on singletons, something we need to manually do via an export right now (which has limitations if we go over >500k entities exported). This would increase user ability to do deeper searches.
8 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Maven support for cba build

we have generated CBAs for the MDM v11.6 but dont see any maven/graddle artifacts being generated. Could you please provide a feature for doing a build to generate cba where RAD not present as like a typical jenkin build server
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Filter on ACTIVE consents in getAllConstensByParty

This transaction is used in one of the API’s. Our consuming applications request to filter on ACTIVE consents as the results set can be very large and cause a timeout issue and eventually long delays and retries. But that’s not possible in this tr...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted